Dr. Lawrence Ampofo, Director,Digital Mindfulness

Lawrence Ampofo is a thought leader on the impact of digital technologies on humans and society.

Lawrence is a political scientist, strategic communications expert, author, trainer and speaker who focuses on the impact of emerging digital technologies on the geopolitical system and global business.

Creating Digitally Mindful Spaces

• “The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it” — Marc Weiser.

• Software and IoT are fundamentally changing how people interact with technology and spaces. Humans are increasingly less likely to be hunched in front of our computer screens and expect to access computers wherever they are, and for those digital experiences to be ambient, non-interruptive and powerful.

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Use Different Human Data Points to Understand Motivations

Calm Technology“Smoothly capturing the user’s attention only when necessary, while calmly remaining in the user’s periphery most of the time…to design products that work well, launch well, are easy to support, easy to use, and don’t get in the way of a user’s

life.

Technology should amplify the best of humanity and the best of technology

Technology should require the smallest possible amount of attention

The right amount of technology is the minimum needed to solve a problem

Technology should respect social norms

Technology should make use of the periphery

A person’s primary objective should not be computing but being human

Screen-free App Experiences

Affective Computing Can Help Bridge the Gap between Apps and Human Emotions

Affective Mediation Human-to-Human Communication

Human-to-Self Communication

Computer Expression of Emotion

One-to-Many Communication

Increasing the range of computer

understanding of human emotion

Improving human-to-human

communication with technology (e.g.

email / video calls)

Using machines to help people

understand their psychological and emotional states

Helping apps and machines to express human-like emotions

Using machines to understand effective

communication at scale to multiple emotional states

Evolving Humane Digital Landscape

Affective Computing

Virtual Reality

Human Augmentation

Behavioural Science

Human-Machine-Interaction

Artificial Intelligence

Partners spend more than customers

Partners have greater brand affinity than customers

Partners are more engaged with the app experience than customers

Partners are more loyal than customers

Humane App Designers Reap Many Benefits

The Partner’s goals become the app-maker’s goals

Building Whisperers Aid Digital Transformation of Buildings

Building Emotion Connectsthe Physical, Virtual, and Emotional Worlds

Humanistic Digital Inclusion